Example sentences of "[to-vb] and [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be deeply moved and encouraged , in his dreams , even by the smallest and most ordinary bud ; his nostrils got raw and caked with fine dirt as he knelt down and sniffed and sniffed to try and catch the first smell of green life . |
| 2 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 3 | As part of this learning exercise , a team from Brunel University has been asked to monitor and evaluate the first six field sites . |
| 4 | The nuns travel to South Africa this month to build and establish the first multi-racial convent in Mafikeng in the African homeland of Bophuthatswana . |
| 5 | The arrival of the " talkies " in 1927 aroused new interested when millions flocked to watch and hear the first talkie star , Al Jolson , in The Jazz Singer . |
| 6 | Sharp Corp has already signed to make and market the first Apple Personal Digital Assistant , Newton , and Sony Corp makes Apple 's smallest PowerBook . |